mountains from Canada to Pensylvania; and was cultivated 
at the Chelsed Garden in 1759 by Miller. No figure of it 
has been ever published from the living plant. 
Root perennial. Stem about 8 or 9 inches high, round, 
slightly angular, rough; reddish brown, distantly leaved. 
Leaves alternate, long petioled, subreniformly round, broader 
than long, 7-lobed, rough above, smooth and shining below, 
a broad sinus at the base, lobes sharp-pointed and sharply 
toothed, scarcely divided beyond one third of the blade; not 
very unlike those of the Maple tree. Panicle of terminal 
and axillary many-flowered cymes longer than the leaves, 
Calyx herbaceous, 5-parted, turbinately campanulate, twice 
as short as the corolla or more, leaflets subulate. Cor. 
whitish, oblong-campanulate, not + of an inch deep; five- 
cleft: tube nearly twice as short as the limb, pentagonal 
with five nerves alternating with the angles, and five melli- 
ferous grooves within having a prominent laminar edge 
along each side taking their rise from just below the middie 
of every lamina of the limb, and continuing down to the 
bottom of the corolla; limb uprightly spread, equal, seg- 
ments ovately rounded. Filaments white, inserted at the 
base of the tube, bristleshaped, upright, nearly twice the 
length of the corolla, pubescent at the middle: anthers 
brown, sagittately oblong, short, obtuse, incumbent. Ger- 
men superior, conical, small, green, obtuse, rough at the 
apex, just above the base engirdled by a thick glandular 
faintly nodular ring: style smooth, white bristle~shaped, 
equal to the stamens: stigma short, bifid, obtuse. i 
__ The drawing was made from a plant received from Mr, 
Hodson, South Lambeth. 
